Arjun Maneesh Agarwal
Grandson
I have been roommates with my grandmother for 10ish years(like almost exactly 10 years). As my both parents are working, even before I lived in her room, she raised me from almost since I was born till 3/4 years. I literally called her maa.
I normally sleep quite heavily. Like the only way I wake up is when maa shuts the fan for Pooja or when she wakes me up as my alarm is ringing. Like she wakes up before my father, makes the tea and wakes him up. That morning, I woke up to alarm and she is asleep. I get worried and try to wake her up and that was that.
Like I and maa used to speak seldomly since 3ish years, after her mental health detoriated to the point where she would repeat the same thing over and over, and as I was studying first in Ahmedabad and then Surat. Like I am asking about how her health is and she will keep saying that I should drink milk. But the thing was, we used to still stay in the same room as and when I was in Surat.
While I have had more roomates since then, she was by far the best and I will forever cherish the time I had with her. May her soul rest in peace.